This is a drug anthology with a difference. Whilst the usual suspects are here –
Huxley, Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson and Irvine Welsh among them – there are many
surprise inclusion such as film stars like Errol Flynn who fancied himself as the
new De Quincey and Cary Grant who simply fancied LSD. Smashing the myth that drug
culture all began in the sixties Rudgley provides a smorgasbord with dishes from
the first century AD onwards and from drug cultures across the globe from Thailand
to Haiti.

‘A book which manages to be erudite without being boring, and which keeps readers
coming back for another fix without trivialising its subject’

Scene

‘Wildest Dreams is as strong on anthropological exotica - hallucinogenic snuff, zombie
poisons and so on - as it is on comedy’

Daily Telegraph

‘This anthology suggests there is possibly something profound to be found and explored
during the detachment from rationality that drugs allow us; that from the wildest
dreams, we can glean insights by which to change our lives and our societies’

Glasgow Herald

‘An informative and enjoyable read for newcomers to the world of drugs and its aficionados
too’